Ionia-Montcalm County MI Archives Obituaries.....Drake, Jack G. October 2, 1974 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Marilyn Ransom mlnransom@chartermi.net June 14, 2010, 2:36 pm The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Thursday, October 3, 1974 Jack G. Drake, 72, of rural Stanton died unexpectedly at his home Wednesday. A lifelong resident of the Stanton area he was born January 21, 1902 in Stanton and was a retired farmer. April 15, 1926 he was married in Jamestown township to Shirley H. Avery and she survives. Besides the wife he leaves nine daughters, Mrs. Iris Allen of Sidney, Mrs. Irene Nemeth of Grand Rapids, Mrs. Geraldine Nemeth of Lansing, Mrs. Dorothy Hadley of Edmore, Mrs. Shirley Hinton of Tell City, Indiana, Mrs. Edith Clevenger of Stanton, Mrs. Joyce Crystal of Ionia, Mrs. Linda Waldron of Kingsford, Mrs. Gala White of Ionia; 32 grandchildren and six great grandchildren; brother, Glenn V. Drake of Rockford. Funeral services will be Friday at 1 p.m. at Nevin’s Lake church. Rev. Audley Boeve and Rev. Joseph Nelson will officiate and interment will be at Forest Hill cemetery, Stanton. Visitation hours at the Stebbins-Simpson funeral home at Stanton will be from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday. A memorial has been established for the Michigan Heart association or Gideon Bible society. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/d/drake5541nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb